Saturday, December 20, 2008

Thing 11 - Podcasting

I checked out a few of the podcast directories. In general, they were pretty hard to use to find anything good, unless you already knew what you were looking for.

Podcast Alley - I had the best luck with this directory. Although it was pretty difficult to browse a list of titles. Searching by keyword was your only option. I noticed there seemed to be a lot of alternative medicine titles. I did find a podcast to subscribe to - MedPod101. It teaches a different topic from Internal Medicine in each podcast.

Podfeed.net - This directory seemed better, in terms of finding things. And I liked the tag feature too. However, after browsing for awhile it looks like all of the podcasts in this directory are made by individuals. I didn't see anything from an "authority", like the CDC, or an association, or a society. I again saw lots of podcasts on alternative medicine, as wells a dieting and sex. I also noticed a feature where you could pay to have your podcast moved to the top of the list.

Yahoo Podcasts - I looked at this only briefly because when I was doing searches, everything that was coming back was music. So I got tired of trying to get past the music results and I just gave up.

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